Simplify Iteration in MVC Views with NHAML

This post is inspired by the one from Steve Sanderson. He wants to improve the table generation on the WebForms engine in ASP.NET MVC. I definitely recommend to switch to NHAML instead.

This is how it would look: (there is no tbody - must be Steve's mistake, anyway I'll leave it as is)

%table
  %thead
    %th Rank
    %th Name
    %th Age
  %tbody
    - var people.Model.ToList();
    - for(int index=0; index<people.Count; index++) {
      - var cssClass = "myitem-" + (index % 2 == 0 ? "odd" : "even");
      - if (index == people.Count-1) cssClass += " myitem-last";
        %tr {class=cssClass}
          %td
            = index + 1
            .
          %td
            &= people[index].Name
          %td
            &= people[index].Age

And this is much more readable for me, especially comparing to the original.
Also keep in mind there are no any extension methods used, just pure C# and NHAML.
Adding some extension methods I would probably make it look like this:

%table
  %thead
    %th Rank
    %th Name
    %th Age
  %tbody
    - for(int index=0; index<Model.People.Count; index++) {
        %tr{ class=#{Model.People.RowClassFor(index)} }
          %td
            = index + 1
            .
          %td
            &= people[index].Name
          %td
            &= people[index].Age

And we have only simplest possible extension method: RowClassFor. It can be reused in all the tables so you don't need to modify million of view in order to change css classes.
Looks much better? Don't you agree?